The perf tool is a powerful Linux profiling framework built directly into the kernel, capable of sampling CPU performance counters, tracing system calls, and generating flame graphs that reveal exactly where an application spends its time. On RHEL 8, perf is packaged in the standard repositories and integrates with the kernel’s built-in performance monitoring units […]
Tekton is a Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Unlike Jenkins or GitLab CI, Tekton runs entirely as Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), meaning every pipeline, task, and run is a Kubernetes object you manage with kubectl — no separate CI server to maintain. This cloud-native approach gives you full […]
Composer is the de facto dependency manager for PHP. It resolves and installs PHP library dependencies declared in a project’s composer.json manifest, downloads them from Packagist (the central PHP package repository), generates an optimised autoloader, and manages version constraints with semantic versioning. Composer transformed PHP development by enabling the modern package-based ecosystem — frameworks like […]
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is the universal language of network device monitoring, supported by routers, switches, UPS units, printers, and hundreds of other appliances. On RHEL 9 you can both expose your Linux server as an SNMP agent and query remote devices from the command line. This tutorial covers installing net-snmp, writing a secure […]
PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js applications. Running a Node.js app directly with node server.js has a critical limitation: if the process crashes, it stays down until someone manually restarts it. PM2 solves this and much more — it automatically restarts crashed processes, starts applications on system boot, enables zero-downtime reloads for application […]
Prometheus and Grafana are a powerful open-source monitoring stack widely used in production Linux environments. Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics, while Grafana provides rich dashboards and alerting on top of that data. Together they give you deep visibility into system performance, resource utilization, and application health. This tutorial walks through installing both on RHEL […]
How to Install Maven and Gradle on RHEL 7 Apache Maven and Gradle are the two dominant build automation tools in the Java ecosystem. Maven, with its opinionated convention-over-configuration approach and XML-based pom.xml descriptor, has been an enterprise standard for over a decade. Gradle, a newer entrant, uses a Groovy or Kotlin DSL and provides […]
IPv6 adoption has accelerated as IPv4 address exhaustion becomes more acute, and most modern Linux servers must support both protocols simultaneously in a dual-stack configuration. RHEL 8 ships with full IPv6 support in the kernel and in NetworkManager, making dual-stack setup straightforward with nmcli. Firewalld and the major web servers handle IPv6 natively once the […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9, codenamed “Plow”) is the most significant release of RHEL in years, built on Linux kernel 5.14, OpenSSL 3.0, and shipped with a hardened-by-default security posture including SELinux enforcing mode, nftables as the default firewall backend, and full support for the latest POWER, ARM, and x86_64 architectures. Whether you […]
OpenVAS, now distributed as Greenbone Community Edition (GCE), is one of the most comprehensive open-source vulnerability scanners available, capable of identifying thousands of known CVEs across network services, web applications, and operating system configurations. Installing it natively on RHEL 9 requires complex dependency management, so the recommended approach is to deploy it via Docker Compose, […]
